Ipod can't read songs! I've tried eveything....

Ok, so yesterday I thought, hey, theres alot of old music on your Ipod and it crashes all the **** time (probably cause its a 18gig model with 400 mb free) so how about we wipe it clean and refill it?
So I go to Itunes, select my BobPod and delete all songs, afterwards happily filling it to 17 gig or so.
Next day, Ipod still works, in info it says there are 17gigs left (doesnt show how many songs though) but no music will be available, its not that they dont work, I cant bloody see em, I can open them via explorer, and play them without any problem.
So I reconnect to my PC, Itunes suddenly doesnt recognize it (well to be precise it says it cant read the data), Explorer works just fine though.
So after reading through about the whole **** FAQ and browsing half of this forum I decide that I may just need to format AKA restore the Ipod, so I try explorer, doesnt have access, I try the Ipod updater (Ipodinstaller.exe) and the only thing it wants to do is install and uninstall the saftware on the PC, which is, I think, not the factor causing the problem...
I downloaded the updater like 4 or 5 times now, even tried the old one i got with my Ipod but none of them gives me the ability to format or restore.
Please help me to get my Ipod working again, I think the problem is in the Ipod's firmware but as I explained Ipod Updater messes up.
HELP!!!
Thanks for reading in any case... I know I can be a bit overzealous on explaining but I wan't to make, what I know, crystal clear.
¬Bob

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